Maggots

Farah Najib

Writer

Farah Najib is an award-winning playwright and alumna of the Royal Court Writers’ Group and Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab. Her play Dirty Dogs won the 2020 Tony Craze Award from Soho Theatre and was longlisted for the 2022 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. She trained in Writing for Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.

Jess Barton

Director

Jess Barton is a director and theatre maker based in East London. She specialises in new writing, primarily that which interrogates what it means to be human.

Credits include: Maggots, Don’t Forget My Face, AAAAA (co-director with David Brady), Feel More, At Last (co-director with David Brady), Like Your Hate Me (all Lion and Unicorn); Diversifications (Old Red Lion );  Refuge, Mnemonic (The Space); Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (tour); The Last Five Years, Company (both Marlborough); RENT (Sallis Benney).

Caitlin Mawhinney

Set and Costume Designer

Caitlin Mawhinney is a set and costume designer whose work has seen stages and unconventional spaces across the country. Caitlin was the winner of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund in Visual Design and has continued to gain recognition with nominations for The Stage Debut Awards; the Arts Foundation Futures Award; The Naomi Wilkinson Award For Stage Design; and finalist for the JMK Awards.

Recent collaborations include National Theatre, Hull Truck Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, The Pleasance, Soho Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Theatre503, Chichester Festival Theatre, Northern Opera and Southbank Centre, alongside many others.

Peter Small

Lighting Designer

Peter Small is an Offie and Theatre & Technology Award nominated lighting designer working across mediums such as theatre, dance, opera and immersive. As well as his work on stage, Peter designed the lighting for the Garden Cinema in Covent Garden, and was a judge for the inaugural Profile Awards.

Credits include: Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (Ambassadors/Bristol Old Vic/HOME Manchester/Edinburgh); ROAM (Shaftesbury Theatre); King Stakh’s Wild Hunt (Barbican); Baby Reindeer (Bush/Edinburgh); All or Nothing (West End/UK Tour); What Remains of Us (Bristol Old Vic); KS6: Small Forward (Barbican/La MaMa); Spitfire Girls (UK Tour); The School for Scandal (UK Tour); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (UK Tour); Orlando (59E59); Wahnfried: The Birth of the Wagner Cult, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Pelléas et Mélisande, Dido and Aeneas (Longborough Festival Opera); Shrek the Musical and My Fair Lady (Mercury Theatre); Cinderella (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The Misandrist (Arcola); Sylvia and Nunsense (English Theatre Frankfurt); Twelfth Night (Kew Gardens); RED (Polka); LIT (Nottingham Playhouse); 58th Street, The Great Murder Mystery, The Greatest Night of the Jazz Age and The Great Christmas Feast (The Lost Estate); The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Priory and A Skull in Connemara (Dailes Theatre); 17 Minutes (Edinburgh); Square Go (UK Tour/59E59/Edinburgh). Peter studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and now lights productions across theatre, dance and opera. 

He was nominated for two 2018 Off West End Best Lighting Awards for Black Mountain (Orange Tree) and A Girl In School Uniform (Walks into A Bar) (New Diorama), for which he was also a finalist for the 2018 Theatre & Technology Award for Creative Innovation in Lighting. His lighting design for 58th Street was nominated for the ABTT Stephen Joseph Award.

Duramaney Kamara

Composer and Sound Designer

Duramaney Kamara is a multidisciplinary sound designer and composer. Under the pseudonym ‘D L K’, he is also a recording artist and producer who releases music under his indie label BE FREE 888 REPERTOIRE.

Theatre credits include: Going Out Out (HOME); Bangers (Arcola/Soho/Edinburgh Fringe); Wolves On Road, August in England, House of Ife, Project 2036 (Bush Theatre); Barcelona (West End); Grow Up, C3 Stories (Company Three); MANTELPEACE (Young Vic Taking Part); Swim, Aunty, Swim! (Belgrade, Coventry); Love Steps (Omnibus/Wrested Veil); Cinderella (Brixton House); Clyde’s (Donmar Warehouse); Sucker Punch (Queen’s, Hornchurch); Bootycandy (Gate); Anansi the Spider (Unicorn/Regent’s Park Open Air); Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn); Moreno, Roman Candle (Theatre503); Collection (Tara Arts); The Death of a Black Man, Hoes (Hampstead); The Dark (Fuel/Ovalhouse); Living Newspaper Edition 4 & 5, Dismantle This Room, My Mum’s a Twat, Instructions for Correct Assembly, katzenmusik (Royal Court).

Fran Cattaneo

Casting Director

Fran Cattaneo is a casting director based in London, where she has assisted in the offices of Rory Okey, Dan Hubbard and Heather Basten for screen and, for stage, Harry Blumenau, Lotte Hines at the Donmar Warehouse and Stuart Burt.

Her credits for theatre include acting as Casting Director on FXFest Readings (Soho), Selina Thompson’s Twine (Yard), The Bleeding Tree directed by The Stage Debut Award-winning director Sophie Drake (Southwark) and The Great Privation: How to Flip Ten Cents into a Dollar (Theatre503), and consulting on This Might Not Be It and …blackbird hour (Bush).

Jessie Anand

Producer

Jessie Anand is a theatre and opera producer who, with her company Jessie Anand Productions, previously produced hit Bush Studio shows Tender and This Might Not Be It.

Other credits include: Untapped Award-winning show The Mosinee Project (Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe / New Diorama Theatre); Offie Award-winning productions The Bleeding Tree and Yellowfin (Southwark Playhouse); Bungalow (Theatre503), Orlando (VAULT Festival / Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe / 59E59, New York), Pennyroyal (Finborough Theatre) and Cabildo (Arcola Theatre / Wilton’s Music Hall).

She works as an in-house producer at Jermyn Street Theatre and she is the company producer for Airlock Theatre, with whom she has produced shows at Soho Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe and on tour. She has also worked with and for companies including the National Theatre, Belarus Free Theatre, Wayward Productions, Kandinsky and The Big House. Jessie is supported by new producers’ charity Stage One.

Adam Jefferys

Production Manager

Adam Jefferys is an award nominated lighting designer and production manager from Essex. Recent work includes: Jack and the Beanstalk (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); A Shoddy Christmas Carol (Lichfield Garrick); Three Little Pigs (Unicorn/Chichester); Speed (Bush); Animal Farm (Bolton Octagon and UK Tour); Statues (Bush); Foreverland (Southwark Playhouse); Playfight (Summerhall/Edinburgh); Communion (Bush); The End (Bush); My Father’s Fable (Bush); The Bleeding Tree (Southwark Playhouse); Murder in the Dark (UK Tour); Elephant (Bush); After the Act (New Diorama); War & Culture (New Diorama); Under the Kundè Tree (Southwark Playhouse); Jekyll and Hyde (Derby Theatre);  Project Dictator (New Diorama/Edinburgh); Everything Has Changed (UK Tour/Edinburgh); Dorian (Reading Rep).

Adam was nominated for The Stage Debut Awards 2025 for Best Designer.

For Adam’s work, view his website: www.adamjefferys.com.

Rose Hockaday

Stage Manager

Rose Hockaday (she/her) is a freelance stage manager based in London.

Theatre: Sh!t Theatre: EVITA TOO (Southbank Centre); I Dream of Theresa May (Tara Theatre); My English Persian Kitchen (UK/Ireland Tour); Sh!t Theatre: Or What’s Left Of Us, LORENZO (2023 Fringe First winners); Jali, Age Is A Feeling (2022 Fringe First winner and 2023 Olivier Award nominee); Bedu (Soho); Autumn (Park Theatre); Surrender (Arcola); Worth (New Earth); harmony. 天人合一, At Broken Bridge and No Particular Order (Ellandar); The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale (London/Toronto); A Woman Walks Into A Bank, Milk & Gall, Spiderfly, Wolfie & Art of Gaman (Theatre503); Antigone; Pops; You Only Live Forever and In Tents and Purposes (Viscera Theatre); Timmy, Glitter Punch, How To Survive A Post-Truth Apocalypse, They Built It. No One Came, Jericho Creek (Fledgling Theatre).

Film: Heaven Knows, Visitors, Ignite, Pomegranate, Wandering Eyes and Versions of Us, as well as music videos Phase Me Out, When You’re Gone and Saint for artist VÉRITÉ.